Intel’s low cost Classmate PC has a new friend: the Studybook, a rugged Android tablet that’s intended for the education market. That means it’s been designed to be simple, reliable, cheap and very tough

We sometimes wonder if there’s any tech firm that *isn’t* planning to make a tablet: online shops’ virtual shelves are groaning under the weight of me-too devices that don’t offer anything strange or startling. Polaroid might be the exception, however

Sometimes a product name becomes part of the language. People hoover, even when they’re using a Dyson; they don’t search things, but Google them, and so on. Could Apple’s iPad be doing the same? Yes, says the Associated Press

Rumours suggest that Google intends to do to Amazon what Amazon did to Apple by making an Android tablet that’s significantly cheaper than a Kindle Fire: the Google Nexus tablet could cost as little as $150

Analysts now believe that the Kindle Fire may have sold as many as six million units. That’s still some way behind Apple’s iPad, but it’s considerably more than other Android-powered tablets are selling, even the ones from market leader Samsung

If you’re fed up with the kids hogging your iPad or just fancy something tough and tablet-shaped to help your children learn, Inspiration Works Kurio could be the tablet for you: the Android device, due to hit the UK in July, is designed specifically for children aged four to fifteen

You don’t need to pay top dollar for an Ice Cream Sandwich tablet: the new Velocity Micro Cruz T507 promises to deliver Android 4.0 for just $150. The North American computer firm is a newcomer to the tablet market, but its first two tablets could be interesting arrivals in the sub-$200 category

Fancy getting your hands on an Android tablet? You might want to wait until after Christmas. According to news site DigiTimes, “waves of price cuts” are coming as manufacturers struggle to shift unsold stock.

What would happen if you left a tablet and a TV alone together with Barry White on the stereo? Motorola may have the answer: its forthcoming Corvair device is a weird cross between an Android tablet and a TV remote control.

If you’ve got any spare comedy DVDs kicking about, you might want to send them to RIM: the BlackBerry firm could probably do with some cheering up. The firm’s tablet adventures are giving it a major pain in the wallet, and its troubles don’t appear to be over.

The ill-advised TabCo hype led many to write off Fusion Garage’s Grid10 Android tablet, but that might have been premature: the firm has just announced knock-down UK prices that make it approximately 1,000% more interesting.

At just 7.7mm thick and 558g it makes the iPad 2 look like it needs a trip to the gym, but is its beauty more than (thin) skin deep?

Some tablet firms just don’t get the same attention as Apple. Just look at the Andy Pad – we’re willing to bet you’ve never heard of it, and yet they – there are two models – are among the cheapest Android tablets on sale in the UK.

The news that HP is canning its tablet business means there will be no more TouchPads – but that doesn’t mean existing ones have suddenly become useless.